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thiisonecrazy   07-03-2009 at 07:11:02 AM

I'm buying a new motherboard and trying to figure out which cpu cooler to get.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103191

that processor specifically


whats the best cooler i can find for around $30?

(please use neweg/ tiger-direct/ or amazon )

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Bronze Home Brew badge skora   07-03-2009 at 07:46:57 PM
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835207004

Heres my review of it also:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] =mixed+bag

I have this one. Comes with TX-2 thermal paste making it a great value and it gets the job done. Frosty Tech has had it on their top 10 list for many many moons.

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thiisonecrazy   07-03-2009 at 09:15:13 PM
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wow that cooler looks just about perfect, and after reading the review i found on

http://www.frostytech.com/articlev [...] 271&page=4

it looks like it will do the job very well.

do you think it's worth spending $10 on artic silver 5 ?

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Bronze Home Brew badge skora   07-03-2009 at 11:35:06 PM
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This review shows that there's some that perform a bit better than others. But unless you're superoverclocking, the top 1/2 of the list all perform well enough for the casual OCer. The AS5 did finish with better numbers than the included TX-2, but not by enough in my book to warrant a $9 tube of goo. See round 2 testing and the minimal difference.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index. [...] 8&Itemid=1

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thiisonecrazy   07-04-2009 at 07:00:34 AM
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skora wrote :

This review shows that there's some that perform a bit better than others. But unless you're superoverclocking, the top 1/2 of the list all perform well enough for the casual OCer. The AS5 did finish with better numbers than the included TX-2, but not by enough in my book to warrant a $9 tube of goo. See round 2 testing and the minimal difference.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index. [...] 8&Itemid=1





yeah the difference in paste quality was soo small that it would be a huge waste of money.

thanks for your answer, i think this cpu cooler will work perfectly for my build

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